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jherna2a

Is Saudi Arabia guilty of war crimes in Yemen? - 0 views

www.aljazeera.com/...mes-yemen-160116150136423.html

Saudi Arabia Yemen military intervention

shared by jherna2a on 03 Feb 16 - No Cached
  • jherna2a on 03 Feb 16
     
    This is interview with the former adviser to the Saudi royal family, Jamal Khashoggi. According to him, Saudi Arabia military intervention in Yemen is to prevent the country from succumbing to a sectarian dictatorship.
mcooka

Egypt fills its prisons, but don't worry, it'll make more - Al-Monitor: the Pulse of the Middle East - 0 views

www.al-monitor.com/...s-prison-free-speech-sisi.html

egypt Politics war Revolution

shared by mcooka on 04 Feb 16 - No Cached
  • gypt's worsening human rights abuses are not going unnoticed.
  • People are being assaulted on many fronts, from travel restrictions and false imprisonment to limits on freedom of expression, torture and killings.
  • pproved 16 new prisons in only 2½ years in response to the detention of thousands of young people. Some facilities are still under construction. The number of prisons in Egypt has risen from 42 to 52 since 2011,
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  • 10,000 detainees are under investigation or awaiting trial in detention centers and prisons, and Eid wrote in a Jan. 13 Twitter post that Egypt now houses around 60,000 political prisoners.
  • The statement condemned the arrest of journalists and a number of activists affiliated with certain social movements, primarily the April 6 Youth Movement. T
  • he movement has said it considers the regime’s attempts to crush it as "failures," further characterizing this era of Egypt’s judiciary as bleak.
  • Egyptian authorities are not content with merely preventing some citizens active in society from leaving the country. They also are barring the return of others who they allege pose a security risk
  • he was questioned for about 16 hours and her personal laptop and cellphone were searched. She was subsequently denied entry and deported back to Tunisia, an incident that rights organizations consider blatant police interference in academic liberties.
  • In October, Alexandria University canceled, for “security reasons,” a lecture by Essam Heggy, a NASA scientist and former adviser to Mansour. Heggy is known for his critical views about the Egyptian government.
  • mcooka on 04 Feb 16
     
    This is an article which criticizes all of the Prison growth in Egypt. It has risen from 40 into the 60's in the last two years. There have been huge human rights violations involving the police.
mcooka

Iraq divisions undermine battle against IS - BBC News - 0 views

www.bbc.com/...world-middle-east-35492067

iraq war crossfire politics suni

shared by mcooka on 24 Feb 16 - No Cached
  • More than in any other country, Iraq's future is intimately bound up with the fate of self-styled Islamic State (IS).
  • Territory that was lost in a day or two is taking many months to claw painfully back.
  • But even if initially successful, such an ambitious project, indeed, any further moves to oust IS, could go badly wrong if the foundations are not sound
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  • The IS fighters were able to lodge so easily in the Sunni Arab heartlands because the people there had been largely alienated by the sectarian policies and practices of the Shia Arab-dominated Baghdad government under Nouri al-Maliki, who was finally prised out of the prime minister's office in August 2014.
  • gislation to empower the Sunnis by devolving security and financial responsibilities to the provinces has not happened.
  • Nor have measures to reverse the persecution of former members of Saddam Hussein's Baath Party, or the random arrests, detentions, and to assuage other Sunni grievances.
  • he US, who have about 3,500 military personnel training and advising Iraqi government forces on the ground, also seems to be aware that military muscle is not enough.
  • If that process continues and the militants are defeated, the way Iraq fits together - if it does - will be decided by who pushes them out, and how the resulting vacuum is filled.
  • osul is an almost wholly Sunni city with a population of about two million.
  • Some residents may still see IS - about 85% of whose fighters in Iraq are believed to be Iraqi - as their protectors against an Iranian-backed, Shia-dominated Baghdad government.
  • When the Iraqi army collapsed like a house of cards in the face of the IS eruption in June 2014, it was a motley array of hastily-assembled Shia irregulars, loosely banded into the Hashd al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilisation) that prevented the militants reaching Baghda
  • Ramadi gave a boost to the embattled Prime Minister, Haider al-Abadi.He has scant support even from his own Shia Daawa party, and is seen across the board by Sunni, Shia and Kurdish politicians as weak, hesitant, lacking in leadership and unable to stand up to the militias.But there was a down-side to the Ramadi victory too: heavy destruction, and the displacement of the entire population.
  • Nor can the formula that finally and slowly worked in Ramadi simply be applied at Mosul. It took government forces with coalition backing seven months to regain Ramadi. Mosul is 10 times bigger.
  • He omitted to mention coalition air support, which would also clearly be crucial to the campaign.Some Iraqi analysts believe outside ground forces would also be needed. US military leaders, while reticent, clearly want to up the pace and have not ruled out more boots on the ground. In the absence of serious moves towards national reconciliation, one senior government figure also saw a campaign to retake Mosul as a vital way of forging national unity.
  • mcooka on 24 Feb 16
     
    This article is about the Iraq divisions which undermine the Iraqi purpose of war. This is a result of an unstable foundation to build plans off of. They are trying to find foundation because they do not want to fall back into an IS state five years down the line. 
cthomase

A Radical Idea to Rebuild a Shattered Libya: Restore the Monarchy - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...ibya-restore-the-monarchy.html

Libya politics war ISIS revolution

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  • cthomase on 24 Feb 16
     
    Libya is in the midst of complete chaos as they currently have no official government. One idea that some say could fix the situation is to restore the monarchy that ruled Libya until it was overthrown by Gadddafi. As of now, there is one distant relative, a grandnephew of the former King who stands waiting to rescue his nation if "the people demand it."
kristaf

Egypt Targets Journalists In Crackdown On Muslim Brotherhood : NPR - 1 views

www.npr.org/...rackdown-on-muslim-brotherhood

#CommiteeToProjectJournalists #Journalists #Al-Jazeera #PressFreedoms

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  • Last week, the government designated the brotherhood as a terrorist organization.
  • Egypt's top prosecutor has ordered a 15-day detention for several journalists on suspicion of joining the brotherhood,
  • Egypt to be one of the top jailers of journalists
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  • Egypt now brands it a terrorist organization and announces new steps in a crackdown almost daily.
  • nd Morsi took a style, attitude toward the press and towards the station, and publicly accuse them of inciting violence which started the divide in the Egyptian media and also a divide between those who support the army and those who support the Muslim Brotherhood and President Morsi
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      kristaf on 22 Sep 14
       
      Having to choose a side. You are either with the Muslim Brotherhood and Morsi or you support the Army.
  • Al-Jazeera
  • Committee to Protect Journalists, a nonprofit that promotes the freedom of the press around the world.
  • funded by the Qatari government who was close to the former President Mohamed Morsi administration,
  • 10 journalists have died in Egypt since 1992, six of them died last year in 2013.
  • hostility towards the press.
  • Syria remains the most dangerous environment for journalists. Last year in 2013, there were 29 killed. I
  • Turkey and Iran remain the top two jailers of journalists around the world, which makes the Middle East a very hostile environment for freedom of the press overall.
  • kristaf on 22 Sep 14
     
    The article mentions the imprisonment of journalist in Egypt, who were believed to be members of the Muslim Brotherhood. Egypt was identified as "one of the top jailers of journalists"  according to the Committee to Project Journalists. Along with Egypt, Syria, Turkey, and Iran are also among the most dangerous places for journalists.
  • kristaf on 22 Sep 14
     
    The article mentions the imprisonment of journalist in Egypt, who were believed to be members of the Muslim Brotherhood. Egypt was identified as "one of the top jailers of journalists"  according to the Committee to Project Journalists. Along with Egypt, Syria, Turkey, and Iran are also among the most dangerous places for journalists. 
ysenia

Debating the Iran nuclear deal: A former American negotiator outlines the battleground issues | Brookings Institution - 0 views

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politics iran american deal

shared by ysenia on 15 Feb 16 - No Cached
  • They will prevent Tehran from using the $100-plus billion in previously frozen oil revenues that will be released under the JCPOA to go on a buying spree next year for advanced conventional weaponry and ballistic missile technology. Although Iran will seek to evade the renewed restrictions, Russia and China voted for them and, together with other U.N. members, will be bound to enforce them. Although the arms embargo does not cover all categories of arms (air defense systems such as the S-300 are not included), neither Russia nor China is expected to sell Iran the weapons that are covered, such as high-performance aircraft.
  • ysenia on 15 Feb 16
     
    American Negotiator goes in depth about the long-term effects of the Iran Nuclear Deal. Outweighing the pros and cons of the situation and predicting the outcome.
eyadalhasan

Sex, lies, and debt potentially exposed by the latest hack of US data from China - 0 views

www.businessinsider.com/exposed-by-us-data-hack-2015-6

US security cyber

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  • eyadalhasan on 01 Mar 16
     
    When a retired 51-year-old military man disclosed in a U.S. security clearance application that he had a 20-year affair with his former college roommate's wife, it was supposed to remain a secret between him and the government.
mkulach

Egypt legend Aboutrika investigated for being member of 'Muslim Brotherhood' - 0 views

www.albawaba.com/...im-brotherhood%E2%80%99-811064

Muslim Brotherhood Aboutrika soccer Egypt

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  • mkulach on 02 Mar 16
     
    Legend footballer Mohamed Aboutrika was on charges of funding the Muslim Brotherhood by a committee dedicated to investigating the assets of Brotherhood members. On 8 May 2015, Aboutrika's assets were frozen after the government committee announced the confiscation of properties belonging to tourism company Asshab Tours, in which the former Al-Ahly and national team player has shares. The soccer player was known to have supported Morsi and is now being suspected for more involvement.
cthomase

Libya... Britain's next Afghan disaster? UK colonel warns of 'mission creep' - 0 views

www.rt.com/...-libya-war-afghanistan-wieloch

war isis Libya revolution

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  • cthomase on 11 Apr 16
     
    British plans to send troops to Libya could result in another Afghanistan-style disaster, according to a former army colonel who led a "calamitous" mission in the war-ravaged North African state in 2012. Lieutenant Colonel Rupert Wieloch told the Telegraph on Monday that British involvement carried " a great danger of mission creep.
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